儒家思想影响下的爱默生“入世观”

Emerson's Worldly View under the Influence of Confucianism

爱默生是美国思想家、文学家、诗人,美国超验主义之父,是确立美国文化精神的代表人物。爱默生也被林肯总统誉为"美国的孔子"。超验主义思想体系在创立和形成的过程中,东方哲学思想对其起到了极大的影响作用。古印度、波斯等宗教哲学思想丰富了爱默生的理想主义哲学,而中国孔孟思想则以其"入世"的伦理道德观深刻地影响了爱默生的人生哲学思想。

Ralph Waldo Emerson is the American thinker, writer, poet, father of American Transcendentalism, and the great representative of the American culture. Emerson was also called by President Abraham Lincoln as“the American Confucius”. The oriental philosophy played an important role in the formation of the American Transcendentalism. The ancient Indian and Persian philosophy has enriched Emerson’s idealist philosophy, meanwhile the worldly view of Confucianism from China has deeply influenced Emerson’s philosophy of life.